Immune Responses and Their Potential Role in Insect Outbreaks

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 47-70

  Shlichta, J Gwen ^a   Smilanich, Angela M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Density of conspecifics of area, prophylaxis and melanism increase; Host plant diet, source of variation in immune response; Immune response, defense against parasitic enemies; Immune response, mechanisms or conditions and outbreaks; Immune responses in outbreak formation decline, and genetic component; Immune responses, potential roles in insect outbreaks; Insect immune response and pest herbivore escape; Insect outbreaks and the immune response; Outbreak species, polyphagous and host plant selection; Parasitism, defoliator and other outbreak populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883409338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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